Participating employees will have the chips, which use near field communication (NFC) technology, implanted between their thumb and forefinger.

Correction: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat author is Samin Nosrat, is a Woman

A couple weeks ago on the AIs get Burned Out on AR episode of GeekSpeak Ben mentioned Salt, Fat, Actid, Heat – a cookbook.
Listener Scot wrote:
I’m a few days late to the podcast so I’m sure I’m not the first to mention it but the author, Samin Nosrat, is a woman. The discussion about the book was great but knowing how conscious you are on the show about gender and race issues I thought you would want appreciate the correction. Also, on a side note, the book is based on a cooking class she developed by the same name which is taught in San Francisco.

This week the British papers revelled in news about how much the BBC’s on-air stars get paid, though the salaries of their counterparts in commercial TV remain under wraps. In Norway, there are no such secrets. Anyone can find out how much anyone else is paid – and it rarely causes problems.

1Password is aggressively pushing a software as a service model for their app.

The stand-alone apps are no longer being marketed, and there are references in the forum to customers having to request special links. I’ve not looked at every single platform version, but at least for Windows, the link is still on the AgileBits download page if you know to look.

Local device storage (i.e., local vaults) are being strongly discouraged, and in my view, barring a course change, headed for full deprecation.
*In the latest 1Password version 6.x for Windows, you can no longer create or update local vaults. That might change in the future, or it might not. But their forums make it clear that they are strongly pushing all new customers to non-local storage.

The 1Password.com web site login uses unsigned on-demand host-based javascript, and users must enter their vault password & master key to sign in to the site, even for for routine billing updates. Absent 2FA/U2F, there’s a real risk of simple phishing.

If you have and use 1P, great. I do too! But you might log in to 1Password.com to see exactly what you have backed up in their cloud.

My issue is transparency & control. For many others, it’s also cost. As I have said repeatedly, I want companies like AgileBits to thrive. I want them to be able to grow and to continue to hire the best security and product design people around. But I want the choice of where my data reside.

Films like Jurassic Park have led us to believe that Tyrannosaurus rex was capable of chasing down its prey at full tilt. New research done with simulations suggest this dino was no sprinter, and that it couldn’t move any faster than a brisk walk. Well, a brisk walk for a nine ton carnivore. At a top speed of 12 miles per hour, you’d still be hard pressed to outrun this prehistoric beast.